🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 28, 2026) · next update tomorrow 6:00 am CDT
Ask: HAMs within 5 miles of N9TPB · Extra class operators in Madison, WI · or try N9TPB · K9* wildcards · Smith, John · 0004797601 (FRN) · 53703 · Madison, WI · old CB calls like KHC1939 or 18Q3518 (1962–63 CB call books) · (205) 546-1767 (1990s CB directory phones)
WA4FTA HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Mar 27, 2011.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Mar 27, 2011
Previous holder: THOMAS F EDDINGS
Held WA4FTA Jul 18, 1989 → Mar 26, 2009
· first licensed Jul 18, 1989 as WA4FTA
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1963 as WA4FTA, before the FCC's online records
WA4FTAExpiredTechnician PlusJul 18, 1989 → Mar 26, 2009 (expired)
From the FCC amateur database as published on the QRZ! callsign CD-ROMs, 1993–2003, before and alongside the FCC's online records (which start in 1999). "Seen" dates are the first and last disc showing that record; the issue date is the FCC's, so it can be a renewal of an even older license.
Seen Apr 7, 1999 → Apr 17, 2003 · 9 discs WA4FTA
· Technician Plus · issued Mar 26, 1999, expires Mar 26, 2009
THOMAS F. EDDINGS
826 RIDGE LANE DR, BESSEMER, AL 35020
Seen Oct 31, 1994 → Nov 11, 1998 · 8 discs WA4FTA
· Technician Plus · issued Jul 18, 1989, expires Jul 18, 1999
THOMAS F EDDINGS
826 RIDGE LANE DR, BESSEMER, AL 35020
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → May 3, 1994 · 2 discs WA4FTA
· Technician · issued Jul 18, 1989, expires Jul 18, 1999
THOMAS F EDDINGS
826 RIDGE LANE DR, BESSEMER, AL 35020
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
Seen Nov 7, 2004 → Oct 25, 2026 · 51 snapshots · as WA4FTA
THOMAS F EDDINGS
826 RIDGE LANE DR, BESSEMER, AL 35020
From scanned copies of the printed callbooks (government lists from 1913, then the Radio Amateur Callbook to 1997), read by OCR, so names and streets can carry typos. Each line is one or more editions in a row showing the same name at the same address.
1996 · 1 edition WA4FTA · class T
Thomas F Eddings ~16 Ridr Lane 6r, Bessemer, AL 35010 1996 p.634
1994 · 1 edition WA4FTA · class T
Thomas F Eddings 826 Ridge Lane Dr, Bessemer, AL 35020 1994 p.578
1992 · 1 edition WA4FTA
T Fc:~t ~u~ddings, B26 Rid E Lane Dr, Bessemer ~ M~~ 1992 p.514
1990 · 1 edition WA4FTA · class T
Thomas F Eddings 826 Ridge Lane Dr, Bessemer, AL 35020 Winter 1990 p.463
1985 · 1 edition WA4FTA · class T
Thomas F Eddings B1b Rid~e Lane Or, Bessemer, AL 35010 Winter 1985 p.457
1984 · 1 edition WA4FTA · class T
Thomas F Eddings 816 Ridge Lane Dr, Bessemer, AL 35010 Winter 1984 p.463
1983 · 1 edition WA4FTA · class T
Thomas F Eddings 826 Ridge Ln Dr, Bessemer, AL 35020 Winter 1983 p.443
1982 · 1 edition WA4FTA · class T
Thomas F Eddings B26 Ridge Ln Dr, Bessemer, AL 35020 Winter 1982 p.430
1981 · 1 edition WA4FTA · class G
Stanley J Foxworthy Box 96, Louisville, IN 37777 Winter 1981 p.417
1981 · 1 edition WA4FTA · class T
Thomas F Eddings 826 Ridge Ln Dr, Bessemer, AL 35020 1981 p.349
1975 → 1980 · 4 editions WA4FTA · class T
Thomas F. Eddings 826 Ridge Lo Dr, Bessemer, AL 35020 Winter 1975 p.246, Winter 1976 p.249, Winter 1977 p.264, Winter 1980 p.418
1974 · 1 edition WA4FTA · class T
Thomas F. Eddin91 826 Fifth St N Winter 1974 p.251
1971 → 1974 · 5 editions WA4FTA · class T
Thomas F. Eddings 826 Fifth St. N Winter 1971 p.245, Fall 1971 p.247, Winter 1972 p.249, Winter 1973 p.249, 1974 p.225
1964 · 1 edition WA4FTA · class T
H O M A S F. E D D 1 N G S 826 F I F T H St. N. B E S S E M E R Ala Fall 1964 p.224
1963 · 1 edition WA4FTA
Thomas F. Eddings 826 Fifth Sr. N, Bessemer Ala Summer 1963 p.240
1962 · 1 edition WA4FTA
Thomas F Eddings, 826 Fifth St, N, Bessemer Ala Fall 1962 p.234
None · 1 edition WA4FTA · class T
Thomas F. Eddings 826 Fifth St. N None p.225
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WA4FTA in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WA4FTA beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.